Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
Twin Cities Area
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
The Old School In Wolverton
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Almelund Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Florence Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
State Theater In Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Cobden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Dotson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion School In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Old Wadena
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Little Marais Inn
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Little Falls Depot
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 48 School Near Delano
The Milford Monument
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lundring Service Station in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Red Wing Iron Works
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Wasioja
Historic Franconia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Sandstone
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hanover Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown